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LineMode won't show return errors?

When I try using the linemode (www) program to request data it doesn't
return the errors.  As in, if I ask it to grab an unknown URL it doesn't
return the normal 404 error message.  It returns a couple of blank
lines.

Here's an example: (note Default page is my local default page)

=====
# www -n -p http://www.kearney.org/xx
                                                                   Default
page
   ___________________________________
   
PICS request not found
=====
It didn't return the 404 error.  But when I run it interactively it sort
of works properly:

====
# www
                                                                   Default
page
   ___________________________________
   
[END]
Top, Up, Quit, or Help: goto http://www.kearney.org/xx
Top, Up, Quit, or Help: WARNING: Fatal Error: 404 Not Found (Not found) 

PICS request not found
====

So you can see that the interactive session returned the 404 error
properly.  Why doesn't the programmatic use do it?

On other topics how the heck do I use the PICS stuff?  More importantly,
how do I tell it NOT to care about the PICS stuff?

Thanks,
Bill Kearney
wkearney@kearney.org
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